Electric wire connecting device

• US 4,968,268 A
• Filed: 08/18/1989
• Issued: 11/06/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Oh, Un S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pirlot, David L.
• Application Number:
  US07/395,505
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 439/389, 439/409-419, 439/421, 439/425, 439/426, 439/431
• US Class Current: 439/411
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/62 connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2479 penetrating the area under the screw head

Abstract

An electric wire connecting device for connecting an electric wire or TV antenna feeder wire to a receptacle or terminals only by the tightening action of the device which passes a blade provided within the connecting device through the insulation cover layer so as to be contacted directly with the conductive wire core made normally of copper wire, so that electrical connection can be obtained. The invention is comprised of: basic body (1) and blade (1a) standing erect from the body, a pair of pressing pieces (1b) bent inwardly at both end edge portions, a pair of anti-motion pieces (1c) bent inwardly at both end edge portions and diverging from said pressing pieces with a predetermined cut out portion therebetween, and a stopper coupling groove (1d) defined by a cutout at a central portion of the rear edge of the body for coupling with a mating protrusion so as not to rotate with screwing of the tightening screw.

Claims

1. An electric wire connecting device, comprising:

a conductive connecting member providing a washer function for a terminal screw in connecting electrically the electric wire;

a first blade to extend bent erectly from a body of the connecting member so that the electrical connection can be obtained by causing said blade to penetrate an insulation cover layer of the electric wire only by the tightening action of the terminal screw;

a pair of means for pressing both sides of a connecting portion of the electric wire by bending both end edge portions of right and left sides of the body inwardly and spaced apart from said body;

a pair of anti-motion pieces made of electrically conductive material with, a terminal base maintaining the connecting member horizontally at a predetermined distance from said pressing means, said pressing means and anti-motion pieces having inwardly turned resilient ends terminating at different distances from said body; and

coupling groove means for coupling with a stopper protruded from a terminal board to prevent the turning of the connecting member together with turning of the screw upon screwing the terminal screw for the electrical connection of the connecting member with terminal board.

2. An electric wire connecting device according to claim 1, wherein said electrically conductive connecting comprises a discrete pair of elements applied as a set for the electrical connection of the connecting member with the terminal board.

3. An electric wire connecting device according to claim 1, wherein said pressing means and anti-motion pieces are bent with said resilient ends integral with and separated by respective rounded sections from said body, wherein said pressing means press the electric wire and the anti-motion pieces contact the terminal base, whereby the connecting member can be maintained in a planar surface.

4. An electric wire connecting device according to claim 1, further comprising a blade bent to extend erectly with one end edge of said connecting member crossing at a right angle to said acute blade without said inwardly bent portions, so that the electrical connection can be obtained in double.

5. An electric wire connecting device, comprising:

a conductive connecting member having blades bent downwardly to a predetermined length and sharpened with tip ends formed at any one side of the front and rear portions of a rectangular plate perforated with a hole at the center of a planar base, and a pair of pressing pieces bent with different height from one another with anti-rotational pieces respectively formed at remaining sides, and

a terminal member having a nut boss formed on the center of a planar terminal member base and a terminal which is formed to extend downwardly,

said terminal member and connecting member being coupled by screwing a screw into the hole centered on the planar base of said conductive member and a nut member of the terminal member, whereby electric wire having a conductive wire core covered by an insulating layer is perforated by said blades.

6. The electric wire connecting device according to claim 5, further comprised of said conductive member and terminal member being both respectively formed as a pair.

7. The electric wire connecting device according to claim 5, further comprised of a coupling recess formed by cutting out the planar base at any one side of front and rear portions of said conductive connecting member, whereby the coupling is formed to protrude on the plane base of said terminal member, and the conductive connecting member is made to prevent the reverse turning while coupling the terminal member and the conductive connecting member during tightening of said connecting member and said terminal member.